MSc in International Accounting and Finance with Management

After this International Accounting and Finance with Management post-grad course, you’ll be ready to embark on a fulfilling career within and beyond finance and accounting.

Your broad set of skills that integrate knowledge of accounting, fluency in finance and key management techniques will prepare you for careers across a wide range of industries including accountancy, financial services, project finance, business strategy, and management consulting.

Over the past 12 months, students in our International Accounting and Finance course have benefitted from various career-focused events. Highlights include the ACCA Advantage speed networking event, where students connected with employers, and the annual office visit to Mazars. Alumni panels, such as ‘Navigating Careers in the Big 4’, offered insights into working with leading firms.

Additionally, corporate events like the Grant Thornton Channel Islands session provided further insight and networking opportunities.

While this is a new pathway, recent graduates of the existing MSc in the International Accounting and Finance programme have secured positions in companies such as:

• Finance Intern – Accounts
• Graduate Tax Analyst
• Financial Operations Analyst
• Leading Finance Specialist
• Accounts Intern.

Dedicated to your success

From the moment you accept your offer, you'll have access to our dedicated Postgraduate Careers Service, tailored to support your career journey. Our Career Accelerator module, launched over the summer, provides early access to valuable resources, employer insights, and career planning tools to prepare you for the job market.

Our expert Postgraduate Careers Team, made up of experienced recruiters and career coaches offers personalised one-to-one guidance, covering everything from networking and CV building to job offer management and mock interviews. Whether you’re pursuing a new career path, seeking an entry-level role, or launching your own business, you'll receive support to develop the skills and knowledge needed to succeed.

You'll also benefit from exclusive events such as Careers Fairs, panel discussions, and networking opportunities with industry professionals and alumni, helping you explore career options and make valuable connections.

Workshops led by our Careers Team and industry experts cover essential professional skills, including presentation techniques, personal branding, and assessment centre success, ensuring you stand out in the job market.

Additionally, Bayes Careers Online (BCO) offers career planning tools, guidance leaflets, access to job postings directly from employers and key career events, helping you stay on track with your career goals.

On the International Accounting and Finance with Management master’s course, you will:

• Acquire a critical understanding of how financial numbers are influenced by business decisions, strategies and risks
• Develop a strong grasp of fundamental management techniques and skills
• Critically appreciate cohesion between accounting, finance and management issues in an international context
• Learn from active researchers and industry leaders at one of the largest and most respected finance and management faculties in the world.
• Create a course to match your aims, with a broad choice of electives and research projects
• Earn exemptions from some CIMA modules and ACCA modules on a course that’s accredited by ICAEW and is a Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA) Partner Programme
• Benefit from our location near the City of London, with guest lectures and teaching from senior industry professionals and unparalleled networking opportunities.

Course objectives

In addition to gaining strong financial and accounting fluency, you will have the opportunity to broaden your knowledge across a set of management techniques including marketing, entrepreneurship and supply chain management.

You will acquire rigorous accounting and finance analytical training that you can take to the next level by learning how to effectively create strong relations with clients, how to create value with supply chain management, and how to blend tech and human capabilities in order to deliver sustained strategic and responsible growth in organisations.

You will be able to select specialised modules that meet your career aspirations and interests. You will learn from academics who are top experts in their fields in interactive and stimulating lectures that emphasise innovative and practical teaching methods.

Induction weeks

All of our MSc courses start with two compulsory induction weeks which include relevant refresher courses, an introduction to the careers services and the annual careers fair.

Term 1

Compulsory modules:

• Analytics for Accounting and Business
• Contemporary Issues in Corporate Finance and Investment Valuation
• Financial Reporting
• Principles of Marketing and Strategy.

Term 2

You'll take two compulsory and two elective modules.

Compulsory modules

• Financial Statement Analysis
• Strategic Management Accounting.

Elective modules

• International Business Finance
• Entrepreneurship in a Global Context
• Global Supply Chain Management
• International Marketing

Term 3

You may choose from the five options in your final term.

• Option 1: You can take five specialist elective modules plus Career Management Skills and Research Methods (5 x 10 credits)
• Option 2: You can write a 5,000-word General Research Project (3 credits) and take three specialist elective modules (3 x 10 credits)
• Option 3: You can write an 11,00-word Research Project (60 credits)
• Option 4: You can take International Financial Reporting Standards (30 credits) and two specialist electives plus Career Management Skills and Research Methods (3 x 10 credits)
• Option 5: You can take International Financial Reporting Standards (30 credits) and write a 5,000-word General Research Project (30 credits).

Projects and research skills

• General Research Project
• Research Project
• Career Management Skills and Research Methods

Elective modules

• Corporate Entrepreneurship
• Corporate Open Innovation
• Creating Value with Suppliers
• Driving Supply Chain Innovation with Technology
• Family Business
• Luxury Marketing Strategy
• Negotiation Skills for Multidiscipline Managers
• New Market Creation.

International electives:

• Corporate Open Innovation - taught in Rome, Italy
• Creating Value with Suppliers - taught in Bologna, Italy
• Luxury Marketing Strategy - taught in Paris, France.